Sketches in Bedlam, or, Characteristic traits of insanity as displayed in the cases of one hundred and forty patients of both sexes, now, or recently, confined in New Bethlem including Margaret Nicholson, James Hatfield, Patrick Walsh, Bannister Truelock and many other extraordinary maniacs who have been transferred from Old Bethlem : to the above are added a succinct history of the establishment, its rules, regulations, forms of admission, treatment of patients, & c. & c. / by a constant observer.

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Credit: Sketches in Bedlam, or, Characteristic traits of insanity as displayed in the cases of one hundred and forty patients of both sexes, now, or recently, confined in New Bethlem including Margaret Nicholson, James Hatfield, Patrick Walsh, Bannister Truelock and many other extraordinary maniacs who have been transferred from Old Bethlem : to the above are added a succinct history of the establishment, its rules, regulations, forms of admission, treatment of patients, & c. & c. / by a constant observer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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